Thanks, guys! I knew it was IOMMU, as stated in the help section I quoted in the first message. I had seen "IOMMU=y" in my .config, but I couldn't find it anywhere in "menuconfig" in order to disable it. So, Jeffrey Gardner's response helped me "fix" it. I've always been disabling that "Small Systems" section because of it's name "CONFIG_EMBEDDED" and because of the statement "change this stuff only if you know what ya doin'". So, IOMMU was hidden and auto-enabled.
Duncan, thanks for your most detailed answer. Now I know an additional thing that should be done when compiling a kernel for systems with >3.5G RAM. Unfortunately I've got no such "problem" ;-) and I'm happy with my 1G of RAM. It gets rarely used at 100%. Actually only in situations like compilation of updated packages + web surfing in the same time. Beryl and Firefox are my biggest resident memory hogs. Have a nice weekend, people! :) -- Best regards, Daniel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
